2 Forward Looking Statements NYSE: NRGY, NRGP Cautionary Statement Regarding Forward-Looking Statements This communication contains “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 that are not limited to historical facts, but reflect Inergy’s and Inergy Holdings’ current beliefs, expectations or intentions regarding future events. Words such as “may,” “will,” “could,” “should,” “expect,” “plan,” “project,” “intend,” “anticipate,” “believe,” “estimate,” “predict,” “potential,” “pursue,” “target,” “continue,” and similar expressions are intended to identify such forward- looking statements. These forward-looking statements include, without limitation, Inergy’s and Holdings’ expectations with respect to the synergies, costs and other anticipated financial impacts of the proposed transaction; future financial and operating results of the combined company; the combined company’s plans, objectives, expectations and intentions with respect to the expectation that the closing conditions will be satisfied and the Tres Palacios acquisition will close, the accretion expectations as a result of Tres Palacios, the availability and timing of any expansion possibilities at Tres Palacios, the expectation that the acquisition will be funded by a combination of debt and equity, the impact on EBITDA, the anticipated future storage capacity at storage projects as well as future demand for such capacity and the timing of the pending simplification transaction with Inergy Holdings, L.P. All forward-looking statements involve significant risks, uncertainties and assumptions that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements, many of which are generally outside the control of Inergy and Holdings and are difficult to predict. Examples of such risks, uncertainties and assumptions include, but are not limited to, weather conditions that vary significantly from historically normal conditions, the demand for high deliverability natural gas storage capacity in the Northeast and in Texas, the general level of natural gas and other hydrocarbon product demand, the availability of natural gas, the price of natural gas to the consumer compared to the price of alternative and competing fuels, our ability to successfully implement our business plan for midstream expansion, our ability to generate available cash for distribution to unitholders, the outcome of certificate and rate decisions issued by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, and the costs and effects of legal, regulatory, and administrative proceedings against us or which may be brought against us. Inergy and Inergy Holdings caution that the foregoing list of factors is not exclusive. Additional information concerning these and other risk factors is contained in Inergy’s and Inergy Holdings’ most recently filed Annual Reports on Form 10-K, subsequent Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, recent Current Reports on Form 8-K and other SEC filings. All subsequent written and oral forward-looking statements concerning Inergy, Inergy Holdings, the proposed merger and related transactions and the Tres Palacios acquisition or other matters and attributable to Inergy or Inergy Holdings or any person acting on their behalf are expressly qualified in their entirety by the cautionary statements above. Neither Inergy nor Inergy Holdings undertakes any obligation to publicly update any of these forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances that may arise after the date hereof. |