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VICTORIA — The B.C. Utilities Commission moved quickly Wednesday to block public access to the uncensored version of an independent review it commissioned into Site C.

At 8 a.m., the communications director for the commission, Erica Hamilton, called Robert McCullough, the Portland, Ore.-based energy expert who’d posted an unredacted copy of the report by Deloitte LLP on his website.

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She asked him to take down the offending version of the report and he obliged.

With that, the public was again denied access to the full details of Deloitte’s findings about Site C, including delays and overruns on the main construction contract for excavating the site, diverting the river and building the dam itself.

The main civil works contract was $136 million over budget and two months behind schedule from the outset. Already it has eaten three-quarters of its share of the contingency budget, with only one-quarter of the work done. All noted here Wednesday in a column based on the unredacted version of the Deloitte report.