Now Available | Powerless: The High Cost of Cheap Gas

Watch Only on CBSN [View in browser](. [breaker] [logo]( [breaker] [CBSN Originals]( CBSN Originals [Watch Now]( A natural gas boom in the U.S. is creating much-needed jobs and keeping electricity costs low. However, it comes at a high price for some landowners in West Virginia. Under a legal concept that allows mineral companies to do what’s ‘reasonable and necessary’ to get at the natural gas under peoples' land, natural gas companies are crossing private property lines, clear-cutting trees, building massive drill rigs and raking in millions of dollars with arguably little compensation to the landowner. This episode of CBSN Originals – produced in partnership with ProPublica – is a David and Goliath story and a clash of two American ideals: The right of property owners to have control over their land and the right of an industry to have access to the resources they bought and paid for. DOWNLOAD THE CBS NEWS APP [CBSN Originals]( Copyright © 2019 CBS Interactive Inc. All rights reserved. The email address for this newsletter is {EMAIL}. [Unsubscribe from this email]( | [Help]( | [Privacy Policy](