Havre Pipeline seeks 58 percent increase on rural farmsteads

Havre Daily News staff

The Montana Public Service Commission has announced that Havre Pipeline Company has requested an increase on its rates for customers listed as direct rural farmstead customers to go into effect Oct. 1.

The increase would take the rates for rural farmstead customers from 92.56 cents per thousand cubic feet of natural gas to $1.4624 per thousand cubic feet, a 58 percent increase.

PSC says in a legal document that people who would be directly affected by the proposed increase and want to be a party in the docket for the PSC’s examination of the request must file a petition...