Vaughn Palmer: Utilities commission is asking some tough questions. Will Hydro keep on ducking and making excuses?

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VICTORIA — The B.C. Utilities Commission is challenging B.C. Hydro over the lessons supposedly learned from the over-budget and behind-schedule Site C project.

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Commission staff laid out 100 or so questions in a letter to Hydro, posted on the commission website this week.

Together those concerns underscore the inadequacies of Hydro’s recent “lessons learned” report. It was mostly a 250-page exercise in excuse-making and blame-ducking over the giant hydroelectric dam on the Peace River, which came in this fall at $8 billion over budget and a year late.

Hydro claimed it had learned 29 lessons from its review of the project.

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The commission got to the point, by asking how many of those were being applied to its latest megaproject, the $6 billion North Coast........

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