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If John Horgan really does slam the brakes on the Site C dam, it will be the most expensive stop-work order in B.C. history.

That’s because B.C. Hydro has already spent $1.75 billion on the dam and continues to spend $60 million a month on the province’s biggest-ever public-sector construction project.

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That’s $2 million a day. Or $83,333 an hour. Or $1,388 a minute. The dam will probably cost you another 7,000 bucks or so by the time you finish reading this. Any way you add it up, this thing is a money-sucking beast.

And the meter won’t stop running while Horgan decides whether or not to kill it. That’s because he said construction of the dam will continue while the project is reviewed by the B.C. Utilities Commission.

Horgan said he would ask the BCUC to give him an “interim report” on the project within six weeks, and a full report within three months. But there could easily be delays on the road to a final decision.