1 Trusts: A trust must be set up before you can designate one or more trustee and name the trust beneficiaries. 2  Charity: You can name a charity as either the primary or contingent beneficiary. 3  Key person life insurance: It is a common practice for a business to purchase life insurance on key personnel in the company.
Pros and cons of fracking. There has been much debate recently about the advisability or otherwise of drilling for oil or gas deposits in shale using the technique popularly known as fracking (more properly called hydraulic fracturing).
Hydraulic fracturing proppants. A proppant is a solid material, typically sand, treated sand or man-made ceramic materials, designed to keep an induced hydraulic fracture open, during or following a fracturing treatment. It is added to a fracking fluid which may vary in composition depending on the type of fracturing used, and can be gel, foam or slickwaterâbased. In addition, there may be unconventional fracking fluids. Fluids make tradeoffs in such material properties as viscosity, where more viscous fluids can carry ...