Company looking at Havre biofuel plant

A Montana company is exploring the possibility of building a plant in Havre to process a clean-burning airplane fuel additive.

Representatives with Big Fork-based Omega Grains LLC, including the company’s CEO, Carlos Rubione, came to Montana State University-Northern Monday. The visitors met with Chancellor Greg Kegel and researchers at Northern’s Advanced Fuels Center to discuss helping commercialize the fuel center’s patented clean-burning aviation fuel additive, a press release from The Advanced Fuel Center said.

Duane Johnson, a consultant with the company, said today in a phone interview...