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VICTORIA — The B.C. Utilities Commission barely made the cabinet-imposed deadline for a preliminary report on Site C this week, posting the findings just four hours before the clock ran out at midnight Wednesday. 

The New Democrats, in haste, had given the commission six weeks to produce a first take on financial and other concerns about the B.C. Liberal-launched multibillion-dollar hydroelectric project. 

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Confined to that tight time frame, the independent commission came back with a report that raised more questions than it answered. 

Moreover, the 37 findings spread over the 200 pages of the report came with this caveat from the four commissioners on the review panel: “Readers are cautioned these are preliminary and subject to change as we complete the consultation process and as additional information becomes available.” 

A good example of the equivocations involved whether the B.C. Hydro project is on time.