Welcome!
Thanks for visiting the home page of the M.C.C.N.I.A. We hope you find the information at this site both informative and thought-provoking, and that you will join us in assuring our mission that Matagorda County will have continued success, environmentally, fiscally, and for the life of its citizens.
The desire to have a nuclear electricity generating station in Matagorda County was ushered in on the heels of dire financial times in the largely rice-farming based economy of the 1970's and was further touted as 'the' answer as the oil-field based segment of the economy failed in the early 1980's as well.
Matagorda County officials and citizens have typically held the plant and its management in very high esteem and nearly worshipped its very operation and presence here. At least they did until STP officials announced in late 2005 that they had made a "gut-wrenching decision" (Joe Sheppard, spring of '05) to outsource some of the long-promised, long-awaited jobs elsewhere. Typical to a community with its proverbial eggs all in one basket, the microcosmic economy spiraled downward, thereby demonstrating how dangerous it is to have such a powerful giant, a potentially catastrophically dangerous one at that, running amuck in a small community. Housing sales fell off, retail stores and their tax deposits suffered, and careers and pride were crushed.
Fortunately, STP management realized and acknowledged that the decision was a poor one and reversed it, but not before many life-long employees took on a very different perspective of their job. Already reduced to a bare skeletal work force of stressed, overworked employees, the employees were forced to face the fact that it is "all about the money" (Frank Mallen, spring of '05) and that STP managers had shown their true colors: There is no loyalty to the workforce, the community, or anything other than the lining of their own pockets.
Thus, the M.C.C.N.I.A. was born.
Won't you join us?
