{"id":36811,"date":"2013-07-25T10:37:02","date_gmt":"2013-07-25T17:37:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=36811"},"modified":"2013-07-25T10:37:02","modified_gmt":"2013-07-25T17:37:02","slug":"the-fight-to-preserve-whittier-hills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2013\/07\/25\/the-fight-to-preserve-whittier-hills\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fight to Preserve Whittier Hills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=50% src=\"\/home\/graphics\/nick_donovan_interview.JPG\" alt=\"\" \/>The natural space that Los Angeles voters twice passed bond measures to \u201cpermanently protect\u201d has become the subject of an ugly battle in Whittier between oil developers, City Council members, government agencies and conservation groups. <\/p>\n<p>Even though a judge recently affirmed the protective status of Whittier Hills by ordering Matrix Oil company\u2019s equipment to be removed from the land, several interested parties are now entering into a legal settlement process to pay for damages. <\/p>\n<p>A lot of money is at stake and both city and county governments are salivating at the prospect of badly needed revenues. <\/p>\n<p>But the most important question remains: are the Whittier Hills permanently protected from drilling as per voters\u2019 wishes? <\/p>\n<p>On July 25, 2013, Uprising host Sonali Kolhatkar interviewed Nick Donovan, co-founder and Board member of Whittier Hills Oil Watch to answer that question. <\/p>\n<p>Watch a video of the interview here: <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"477\" height=\"300\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QUwkY6td9aA\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whittierhillsoilwatch.org\">www.whittierhillsoilwatch.org<\/a> for more information. <\/p>\n<p>Bipasha Shom recorded this interview. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The natural space that Los Angeles voters twice passed bond measures to \u201cpermanently protect\u201d has become the subject of an ugly battle in Whittier between oil developers, City Council members, government agencies and conservation groups. Even though a judge recently affirmed the protective status of Whittier Hills by ordering Matrix Oil company\u2019s equipment to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36811"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36812,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36811\/revisions\/36812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}