Evergreen Resources

On May 7, the jury in Pocatello, ID, found that Allan Elias ordered employees of Evergreen Resources, a fertilizer manufacturing company he owned, to enter and clean out a 25,000-gallon storage tank containing cyanide without taking required precautions to protect his employees. Occupational Safety and Health Administration inspectors repeatedly had warned Elias... 

Scott Dominguez, an Evergreen Resources employee, was overcome by hydrogen cyanide gas while cleaning the tank and sustained permanent brain damage as a result of cyanide poisoning. ...]... 

How could the Evergreen Project hope to succeed where so many talented researchers and managers had failed Where had they gone wrong Essentially, we believed that many of the problems with earlier research could be attributed to four causes. These were limited resources an artificial separation between theory and practice prematurely arriving at the truth about the causes of success and underestimating the difficulty of the fundamental research problem (Joyce, 2005a). 

Kahler, D.E., undated. Helium, a guide to geothermal energy resources. Western Systems Inc., Evergreen, Colorado, Paper WS1 -1811,2 pp. 

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