A Commitment to Sustainability

At Ironwood Midstream, making a positive impact in the communities where we live and operate is a core value. We ensure our operations and growth projects are sustainable and provide value to our stakeholders. To that end, our goals reflect our commitment to environmental, social and governance (ESG) principles. We invite you to review our ESG Reports to learn more about our priorities and see how Ironwood acts on our values.

A Message from Our CEO

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Mike Williams

Ironwood has a long-standing commitment to being good stewards of our human, environmental, and operational resources. We elevated our efforts in 2022 by designating an executive-level curator for Ironwood’s ESG efforts and creating a cross-functional ESG Steering Committee. Our operations team’s actions significantly reduced our carbon footprint, and our security team implemented best practices and innovative technology minimizing Ironwood’s exposure to bad actions in cyberspace. In 2022 we began measuring and reporting complete Scope 2 emissions, expanded our biodiversity efforts and augmented our social and governance endeavors. We saw an 84% reduction in methane emissions, leading to an incredible 66% reduction in overall GHG emissions. To support our low emissions aspirations, we incorporated state-of-the-art emissions reducing equipment into our project design and established advanced processes for capturing data required for potential future certification. We are looking ahead to potential strategic partnerships for carbon management solutions. As always, the Ironwood team maintained our focus on the safety and wellbeing of our employees and community. We’re committed to our people and the neighborhoods in which we live and work. To this end, we increased our charitable contributions by a factor of seven from 2021. We hired a Regulatory Compliance Manager to sharpen our focus on safety, transparency, and sustainability. We made great strides in cybersecurity, implementing a full-scale audit of the technology deployed across our field operations, allowing us to identify and address potential vulnerabilities. At Ironwood, we realize that sustainability is crucial to human existence; we also recognize that the world’s economy cannot operate effectively without hydrocarbons. Our business is connecting energy supply with energy demand, and we constantly explore cutting-edge, responsible ways of adding value to our customers and stakeholders. I’m proud of the way our team operates with our obligation to safety, security, the environment, and our corporate mission, vision, and values top of mind, and pleased to share our 2022 ESG progress.

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Mike Williams

Mike Williams, Chief Executive Officer

% Change 2021 to 2022

-66%

OVERALL GHG
EMISSIONS

-84%

OVERALL METHANE
EMISSIONS

77%

OVERALL 
CO2 EMISSIONS*

23%

OVERALL 
N2O EMISSIONS*

-64%

HYDROCARBON LIQUID
RELEASE INTENSITY PER
MILES OF PIPELINE

*We increased throughput volume and added 45 miles of pipe in 2022 contributing to an overall increase
in total CO2 and N2O emissions; however, our emissions per mile of pipe decreased year-over-year