. >> that used to be holbrook, a little tiny town, had 20 or 30 friends that lived there when i went to school. there was a couple of stoshes, there was a -- stores, there was a post office. now there's nothing. >> now it's a ghost town. >> pretty much. i love the outdoors, i love the land, to know that it's being destroyed, it's going to be destroyed. >> green county's energy boom has already changed the landscape. here's a long wall mine outside waynesburg the county seat. natural gas drilling operations dot the hill tops. pipelines cut across the rolling train. and -- terrain. and the trucks hauling fresh water, waste water and heavy equipment. everywhere, signs of change. even as green county's population is declining, employment is up. as companies continue to buy up land, to make way for more mining. green county commissioner chuck morris. >> they're upset because it's their home, the home they built and the memories and stuff are there. at the same time they're compensated well enough to -- to find a good place to live relatively nearby. >> i have seen so many neighbors go thr