Global Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities Policy

Purpose

Bridgehampton International Inc. (the Company) is committed to respectful, transparent, and durable relationships with Indigenous peoples, traditional owners, landholders, and local communities affected by its exploration, drilling, production, processing, transportation, and decommissioning activities.

Scope and governing standard

This policy applies to the Company, its controlled subsidiaries, directors, officers, employees, contractors, security providers, and project partners acting on its behalf. Each project must comply with host-country law, permit and license conditions, contractual obligations, and any lender or investor standards that apply. Where standards differ, the Company will apply the higher lawful standard unless the Board approves a documented exception.

Commitments

• Begin engagement early, before material project decisions are irreversible, and continue engagement through closure and post-closure obligations.
• Provide accurate, understandable, and culturally appropriate information about proposed operations, potential impacts, mitigation, emergency response, land access, and environmental protection.
• Seek free, prior, and informed consultation and, where required by law, permit, contract, or financing standard, free, prior, and informed consent.
• Respect internationally recognized human rights and avoid causing or contributing to adverse human-rights impacts.
• Identify, protect, and manage culturally significant sites, archaeological resources, sacred areas, traditional knowledge, and tangible and intangible cultural heritage.
• Maintain fair land-access, compensation, resettlement, livelihood-restoration, and grievance processes where relevant.
• Develop local procurement, employment, training, and enterprise opportunities using transparent and merit-based processes.
• Engage vulnerable or underrepresented groups, including women, youth, elders, and persons with disabilities, in a manner appropriate to local circumstances.
• Apply the Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights where security arrangements present material community or human-rights risk.
• Prohibit retaliation against any person who raises a good-faith community grievance or participates in consultation.

Project requirements

Before material field activity begins, management must establish a stakeholder map, engagement plan, cultural-heritage protocol, grievance mechanism, community-impact risk assessment, incident-escalation process, and documented responsibility matrix. Country counsel must confirm applicable land, Indigenous rights, consultation, compensation, permitting, heritage, and local-content requirements.

Grievance and remedy

Projects must offer accessible, confidential, and culturally appropriate channels for concerns. Complaints must be logged, acknowledged, investigated proportionately, and tracked to closure. The Company will cooperate in remediation where it caused or contributed to an adverse impact and will not require a person to waive lawful rights as a condition of using the grievance mechanism.

Monitoring and reporting

Management will report material community commitments, unresolved grievances, cultural-heritage incidents, security incidents, and community-related project delays to the Sustainability Committee. Material violations or imminent threats must be escalated immediately to the Chief Executive Officer and Board Chair.