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VICTORIA — B.C. Hydro was nine per cent over budget and already dipping into contingency funds from day one on the main construction contract at Site C, according to the uncensored version of a report to the B.C. Utilities Commission.

The troubles continue to the present day, with the $1.8 billion main civil works contract having run through three quarters of its contingency budget with only one quarter of the work being done.

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Those and other disturbing details are contained in a report from Deloitte LLP, the consulting firm hired to scrutinize Hydro’s numbers as part of the cabinet-ordered review of the Site C dam project.

The commission released the Deloitte report on its website Sept. 8, then took it down because it had neglected to black out passages that were supposed to be kept secret. Later it was reposted with those details obscured.

There matters stood until I was chatting this week with Robert McCullough, the US-based energy expert who has been working up here for the anti-Site C Peace Valley Land Owners Association. He advised me that he had an unredacted version of the Deloitte report posted to mresearch.com.