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Cate Street Announces Plans to Start Biofuel Manufacturing 12/8/2011

Within one year, Cate Street Capital plans to begin manufacturing a biofuel known as torrefied wood on site at its Great Northern Paper mill in Millinocket and bring at least 100 new jobs to the Katahdin Region.

Cate Street buys biocoal technology rights for $20M 12/2/2011

In a huge step toward adding the production of treated wood at its Katahdin Avenue paper mill and creating several hundred jobs, Cate Street Capital has purchased for more than $20 million the North American rights to the technology to manufacture biocoal, officials said Thursday.

Scottish company in ‘biocoal’ breakthrough 12/1/2011

Rotawave Biocoal has signed a $20m (£12.7m) deal with Cate Street Capital, a US investment company, to manufacture the technology exclusively and market it in North America and Canada.

Optimism returns to a pair of Maine mill towns 11/25/2011

Investors appear poised to pump new life into the manufacturing base in East Millinocket and Millinocket.

Mill's reopening stokes Maine towns' hopes 11/24/2011

Idled for months, one of the two Great Northern Paper mills is once again sending puffs of steam from its smokestacks, signaling it's back in operation.

The Power to Persevere - How One City Is Rebuilding Itself Through Biomass 11/17/2011

Cate Street Capital’s $275 million project (in Berlin, New Hampshire) will bring to the region an estimated $40 million in annual wages, fuel procurement and purchased goods.

Maine paper workers return to work at mills 10/25/2011

About 250 workers have resumed making paper at Great Northern Paper Co.'s East Millinocket mill during the past few weeks. The sale of the long-shuttered Katahdin paper mills in Millinocket and East Millinocket to Cate Street Capital of Portsmouth, N.H., was completed in late September.

Millinocket and East Millinocket Welcome Great Northern Paper 10/24/2011

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Great Northern Paper Company starts producing paper at East Millinocket mill 10/17/2011

The new Great Northern Paper (recently purchased and re-opened by Cate Street Capital of Portsmouth, NH) began producing virgin newsprint to fill its first order at 6 a.m. today

Cate Street Capital commences work on 75MW biomass power plant in US 10/10/2011

The company will build the power plant on the Androscoggin River, on the former site of the Fraser Papers pulp mill.

Cate Street Capital breaks ground on Burgess Biopower plant 10/8/2011

Cate Street Capital, a national leader in developing green technology companies, was joined by New Hampshire Governor John Lynch and other state and local officials today to formally break ground on its Burgess BioPower power plant in Berlin, New Hampshire. The $275 million, 75-megawatt facility is expected to generate power from biomass wood chips by late 2013.

NH investor group poised to buy closed Maine mills 9/15/2011

A New Hampshire-based investment group is ready to reopen a pair of idled paper mills and revive the Great Northern Paper Co. name that the mills held during their glory days, officials said Thursday.

Cate Street Capital closes on financing for biomass plant 9/6/2011

BERLIN – Cate Street Capital has finalized its financing for the Berlin Station biomass plant, paving the way for construction to get underway this week.

Cate Capital funds Berlin Station 9/6/2011

Berlin Station, a planned 75-megawatt wood-fired plant, will begin construction immediately...

N.H. firm agrees to buy two Maine mills 8/31/2011

A New Hampshire-based investor ended months of speculation Tuesday by agreeing to buy the two Katahdin region paper mills...

Potential Buyer Could Reopen Katahdin Area Mills 8/30/2011

For two towns that sometimes don't see eye to eye, the feeling is unanimous. "That is a huge shot in the arm to us," said Gene Conlogue, Town Manager of Millinocket. "That would just be the shot in the arm this area needs," said Mark Scalle...

PSNH will soon file revised Laidlaw Purchase Power Agreement 5/4/2011

BERLIN — Public Service of New Hampshire is nearly ready to file a modified purchase power agreement (PPA) between Public Service of N.H. and Laidlaw Berlin BioPower-Berlin Station that is designed to...

Developer bows out of WVSA frack water treatment center plan 5/3/2011

Cate Street Capital, a developer of green technology companies, has withdrawn its proposal to build a wastewater...

Developer dumps plans for wastewater facility 4/30/2011

A private equity firm has withdrawn from a study to build a natural gas drilling wastewater facility at the Wyoming Valley Sanitary Authority grounds in Hanover Township, to many residents' relief.

Treatment plant plan is shelved 4/29/2011

Trucks hauling water for Marcellus Shale gas drillers will not rumble up and down the Sans Souci Parkway any time soon.

RP&L takes green energy step 12/7/2010

Board approves agreement to begin plan for shift from coal to municipal solid waste

Cate Street Capital opens water reclamation center 10/7/2010

PORTSMOUTH — Cate Street Capital, an investment company specializing in the commercialization of green technology companies, opened the new 100-acre Red Desert Water Reclamation center in Wyoming on Wednesday.

Cate Street Capital opens water reclamation center 10/7/2010

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