ASPA WIND FARM PROJECT
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Lawmakers were informed during the American Samoa Power Authority budget hearing on Tuesday, that the villages of Aoloau and Auma were recently paid $1 million each for the use of land known as Manunu for the ASPA proposed wind farm project.
Responding to questions...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Fofo Representative Andra Samoa is raising concerns over what she characterizes as “the significant adverse impact to the environment and to our fragile ecosystem” that the recently announced ASPA wind farm would cause.
She shared her thoughts as a former ASPA CEO who...

![(left) ASPA CEO Wallon Young and senior official Ryan Tuato'o during the power authority’s proposed FY2025 budget hearing on Tuesday. [photo: Asi A. Fa'asau] (left) ASPA CEO Wallon Young and senior official Ryan Tuato'o](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/img_9630.jpg?itok=jnWpnEgd)
![The pristine Leafu stream and waterfall situated on Manunu land in the Fofo district. Rep. Andra Samoa wrote in a press release issued over the weekend that she fears the significant adverse impact to the environment and to a fragile ecosystem that the ASPA wind farm would cause if allowed to be built. [photo courtesy of Rep. Andra Samoa] Leafu stream and waterfall](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/leafu_stream_from_manunu.jpg?itok=pwmIiC5q)