On Thursday, October 1, 2026, Chiquita experienced unplanned downtime of Flare 2 at approximately 2:36am due to flame failure. At approximately 4:26am, a grid power outage subsequently resulted in unplanned downtime of all flares and TOxs. Zeeco TOxs 1, 6, and 7 and the Hero TOx were successfully restarted within approximately 30 minutes of the power outage, and Flares 1 and 3 resumed operation by approximately 6:02am. Flare 2 remains offline, and Chiquita is working to restore operation as soon as practicable. The Parnel TOx was already offline prior to the grid power outage due to flame failure, as previously noticed, and work to restore operation remains ongoing. Due to these downtimes, there was a possibility of increased odors in the community during the indicated time periods.

Under Condition 81 of the Modified Stipulated Order for Abatement in Case No. 6177-4, Chiquita Canyon, LLC (Chiquita) is required to notify the community (i) if any individual control device has downtime which is anticipated to last 30 minutes or more or once any downtime for an individual control device reaches 30 minutes of downtime or (ii) if the downtime of any combination of landfill gas collection equipment results or is planned to result in a reduction of gas flow to control devices by 10% or more and the downtime is anticipated to last 30 minutes or more or once any downtime for such devices reach 30 minutes of downtime. Pursuant to Condition 81, Chiquita is also required to notify the community once the gas collection and control equipment has resumed operation.

Chiquita continues to work to diligently comply with regulator orders.