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Information BulletinCorrespondence & PapersPage Cor-14Newcastle targets pollutersNewcastle Council will target 20 companies across the city that it has identified as theregion's biggest greenhouse polluters.Environment and Climate Change Services Manager Peter Dormand says a council report hasrevealed around 20 local industries emit 30 per cent of greenhouse emissions or are majorwater consumers.Mr Dormand says a person will soon be employed by council to work with industries such asthose on Kooragang Island, to help them reduce their carbon footprint."What we plan to do is bring those top 20, separate them off from the remaining 11,000other businesses that we have in Newcastle with a view of working together," he said.Canberra airport upgrade'ALGA News' inspected Canberra airport's Southern Concourse Terminal Extension the otherday and was impressed. Delegates to our National General Assembly next June will be too.The new 26,000sqm terminal has new check in and baggage collection halls, newaerobridges, new food and beverage and retail outlets plus a massive new Qantas ClubLounge that will be the second biggest in the country.The existing terminal building will be demolished in stages to make room for the new biggerand better facility. The project will be built in two stages; the first, now complete is theSouthern Concourse Terminal Extension and the second stage known as the WesternConcourse Terminal Extension is due for completion in 2012. We are told that whencomplete, Canberra will have a state-of-the-art airport that will rival any terminal of its sizearound the world.New approach needed for city trafficAustralia is dealing with inner-city traffic congestion in reverse gear, an engineeringresearcher says.Australian governments are charging motorists to bypass congested CBDs on toll roads whiletraffic pours into city hearts for free, Queensland University of Technology engineeringstudent Jake Whitehead says. He says the model should be turned on its head. Motoristsshould get free use of bypass toll roads and should pay to drive in the inner city.Mr Whitehead spent last year at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden,investigating road-tolling schemes in Europe. He found it was now standard practice to useschemes such as congestion taxes in order to discourage road use. "Quite a few of theEuropean government officials I met think Australia has taken the wrong approach to roadpricing," Mr Whitehead said."Our logic is wrong because we charge people to travel on the new roads or bypasses thatwe want them to use, while drivers travel for free on congested inner-city routes. Instead,we should be looking at charging on these congested routes and using that revenue to fundor subsidise public transport and roads."