This article focuses on the earthquakes in texas, and how the increase use of oil is driving earthquakes and rumbling home walls. To be technical, fracking i not causing the tremors, but rather the waste in the water wells are causing enough damage that there had to be new rules set to manage the disposed water. The way these earthquakes are occurring is when the water that is being drilled into the ground fills up empty space, but the empty space might happen to be a fault line, and if a fault line is triggered, so is an earthquake.

As someone who lives in california, I am extremely fortunate to not have to experience severe earthquakes due to fracking especially because of how harmful california can be with earthquakes. I also think that the waste water from fracking is already harmful enough, but with recent news about how it causes earthquakes makes alternative energy sources extremely useful. Specifically, I think we need to invest into solar and wind energy as these are renewable energy sources and effectively provide energy without the cause of natural disasters.