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Outstanding Governorship Award 2017

This pride in history gave Ilocanos new confidence, from within the Philippines Inc., and the 4.1 MW and 2.6 farms of the EDC. Earlier this
Provincial Capitol branching out to other sectors—earlier this year, the year, Marcos expressed her desire to ensure that land used for these
Provincial Government became the first in government to qualify for renewable energy projects is eventually turned over to Ilocano farmers
ISO 9001:2015, covering the unit top-to-bottom including tax collection for ownership, maintaining corporate social responsibility (CSR). In 2016,
frontliners, public hospitals, and even the smaller municipalities in Marcos's initiative also brought forth Provincial Resolution No. 017-2016
the Cordillera mountains. The pursuit of culture and the arts became a declaring Ilocos Norte as "clean, green, and coal-free" and highlighting the
livelihood through heritage tourism, pilgrimage churches, and museum province as "the undisputed wind energy capital of the Philippines."
restaurants, shifting people away from the idea that it is reserved for the As an added effort for environmental preservation, Marcos launched
wealthy few. the Green Wall of Ilocos Norte project which enjoined the community as
The Ilocos Norte landscape, with mountain ranges, beaches, deserts barangay ranger officers (BROs) in tree-planting efforts to restore the
and a luxuriant biodiversity, also became a source of inspiration for forest area of the province. Today's reforestation efforts now boast a
renewable energy: Ilocos Norte hosts the 150-Megawatt Burgos Wind seedling survival rate of 80-90% as the BROs are tasked not only to plant
Power Project of the Energy Development Corporation (EDC), the 81 MW trees but also to patrol the areas and prevent forest fires and illegal logging
Caparispisan Wind Power Station of Northern Luzon UPC Asia Corp., and the and slash-and-burn operations. Success of the Green Wall project led to
52 MW Bangui Wind Power Project of Northwind Power and Development its mangrove counterpart called the Blue Wall of Ilocos Norte aimed at
Corp. More recent developments are the 5 MW Agua Grande hydroelectric protecting vulnerable coastlines and minimizing damages during storms
power plant in Pagudpud, and two solar farms: the 20 MW facility of Soleq and typhoons.

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