A report confirming the discovery of liquids rich gas buried deep within the Beetaloo Basin has been submitted to the NT Government.

Chief executive of the Tractor and Machinery Association says strict non-road diesel emissions standards in the EU and the US might make regulation in Australia largely unnecessary.

When Tom Martel set up his butcher shop to cater for the gold rush in the Gilberton region in 1869, he could hardly have imagined his descendants still living there 150 years later.