It is happening all across America-rural landowners wake up one day to find a lucrative offer from an energy company wanting to lease their property. Reason? The company hopes to tap into a reservoir dubbed the "Saudi Arabia of natural gas." Halliburton developed a way to get the gas out of the ground-a hydraulic drilling process called "fracking"-and suddenly America finds itself on the precipice of becoming an energy superpower.

"Not in your backyard. Not yet."

Credits

Josh FoxDirector

Josh FoxSelf

Dick CheneySelf (archive footage)

Pete SeegerSelf (archive footage)

Richard NixonSelf (archive footage)