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By Phil Heidenreich Online journalist Global News
WATCH ABOVE: Over 1,500 people attended a rally in northern Alberta on Sunday to drum up support for the province's embattled energy sector
As concern grows among workers and politicians over Alberta’s embattled energy sector, a massive rally got underway in the city of Grande Prairie, Alta., to support the resource industry and to call for pipelines to be built.
A Global News reporter at the demonstration said “there are easily hundreds of people” who gathered in Grande Prairie’s Muskoseepi Park to have their voices heard. The RCMP told Global News they estimate at least 1,500 people showed up.
Grande Prairie is located about 500 kilometres northwest of Edmonton. According to Statistics Canada’s 2016 Census data, the city has a population of just over 62,000 people.
RCMP officers estimating 1,500-2,000 people are here supporting Canadian oil and gas in #gpab pic.twitter.com/RfqkTz6EiX
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