The Haynesville deposit could be the largest natural gas reservoir in North America. When the residents in rural Northern Louisiana learn they are sitting on a fortune, they struggle to weigh their big dreams against the safety of their community. Some will take the money and run while others learn to negotiate with the big energy companies who are looking to drill into the trillion-dollar natural gas reservoir that lies deep beneath their homes. Will this be easy money or the fight of their lives, in what some are calling the "new gold rush?"

"Haynesville" explores how the historic find could affect the nation’s energy picture through the eyes of industry experts, environmentalists and the people of Haynesville, Louisiana.