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Legendary oilman Jim Gray has seen Alberta’s anger against Ottawa erupt when issues like the National Energy Program have boiled over.

But the fury usually subsides and the energy industry soon gets back to its knitting: producing oil and natural gas that is used across North America.

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Today, the co-founder of Canadian Hunter Exploration is watching the resentment build again in Alberta’s energy sector over the country’s pipeline woes, the seeming indifference from Ottawa and the outright hostility from other parts of Canada, as the province struggles to get its oil to market.

“I admit the frustration levels are increasing,” Gray, a member of the Canadian Business Hall of Fame, said in an interview Monday.

“We must prevail and have to work this out together. And there has to be common sense (that) prevails here.”

The problems of the Canadian oilpatch have been well documented, from low commodity prices to barriers preventing new infrastructure from being built that could ship energy products out of the province.