If you have a keen interest in the progress of Rise Gold Corporation and its application to re-open the Idaho-Maryland Mine in Grass Valley and were therefore watching the mynevadacounty.com website closely,  you might have noticed the posting of the Notice of Preparation of an Environmental Impact Report and Public Scoping Meeting for the Idaho-Maryland Mine Project appearing there on July 17th, exactly 30 days before the deadline for public comments on the scope of the project.

If, however, you first learned of the comment period from the following video posted by the County to its Youtube channel on July 27th, you would have discovered that 10 days of that 30-day period had already elapsed before you knew anything about it.

This is just one of several good reasons why the comment period should be extended, at east to September 17th.