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CALGARY – While many companies that service the oil and gas industry are struggling with record-low demand for their expertise, Scott Nelson and his team have become steadily busier in recent weeks.

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As prices started receding in November 2014, oil service companies were the first to feel the chill, rolling back salaries and reducing headcount as they responded to producers’ demands to slash costs.

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Nelson, president and CEO of clean-technology firm Titanium Corp., says interest in his company’s services has spiked since the Paris agreement on climate change and Alberta’s new carbon tax legislation.

“If you’ve been making a long list of things you may or may not do (to reduce emissions), you’d better look at them really hard right now because it’s going to cost you money if you don’t,” Nelson said.

Nelson, and a number of his clean-tech peers have been fielding an increasing number of calls from oil and gas executives since Alberta Premier Rachel Notley announced in late November new economy-wide taxes on carbon emissions, total emissions caps for oilsands operations and a requirement that energy companies reduce their methane emissions by 45 per cent.