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Onyx Access Solutions

Strategic Indigenous Partnership for Sustainable Access Infrastructure

Willow Lake Métis Group is proud to partner with Onyx Access Solutions to deliver turnkey matting and remote access services across Western Canada. This collaboration combines operational excellence with meaningful Indigenous participation, creating long-term value for industry partners and the communities they serve.

Unlike transactional approaches, this partnership is built for sustained impact, prioritizing workforce development, supplier engagement, and environmental stewardship that extends well beyond individual projects.

Onyx Access Solutions provides specialized access infrastructure and industrial matting services for the energy, utility, construction, and clean technology sectors. Their expertise lies in creating reliable, temporary roadways for heavy equipment in remote and environmentally sensitive areas, ensuring projects move forward responsibly while protecting the land.

Founded by an experienced team of industry veterans, Onyx is committed to operational execution, efficiency, and environmental compliance. Their philosophy is simple: make remote access easier, faster, and more reliable—Matting Made Easy.

Services

Through this partnership, WLMG and Onyx deliver comprehensive access infrastructure services designed to meet the operational and environmental demands of complex projects.

  • Full-Cycle Access Infrastructure: All types of industrial matting, including Access Mats, Rig Mats (steel-framed), and Crane Mats (heavy timber) for diverse project requirements.
  • Right-of-Way Access: Creating temporary roadways for heavy equipment and pipeline crossings in remote and regulated environments.
  • Installation and Execution: Complete installation services, including heavy equipment deployment and site logistics management.
  • Delivery and Trucking: End-to-end logistics management for material movement, ensuring timely and efficient project support.
  • Specialized Mat Washing: Dedicated washing facilities to ensure clean mats and prevent the transfer of noxious weeds, clubroot, or invasive species.
  • Environmental Protection: Matting systems prevent soil compaction, erosion, and the spread of disease in sensitive areas, ensuring land is left in the same condition as it was found.

Industries We Serve

Our partnership supports access infrastructure across:

  • Pipeline projects
  • Drilling operations
  • Electrical transmission
  • Wind farms and clean energy developments
  • Utility and construction projects

Your Responsible Access Partner

When you work with WLMG and Onyx Access Solutions, you’re choosing a partnership that delivers:

  • Integrated Solutions: Operational excellence combined with guaranteed Indigenous-led execution
  • Sustained Impact: A model that delivers on employment, training, and community prosperity objectives
  • Environmental Alignment: Efficient execution that meets or exceeds environmental performance standards 
  • Proven Trust: Built on an established working relationship between WLMG and Onyx leadership

Commitment to the Wood Buffalo Region

Onyx Access Solutions is committed to building long-term, sustainable relationships with the communities where we work. This partnership with Willow Lake Métis Group provides clients across Northern Alberta with a local Indigenous option for industrial matting and remote access infrastructure, ensuring projects move forward responsibly while creating meaningful economic opportunity.

The vision behind this partnership is both strategic and enduring: combine Onyx’s operational excellence, supply assurance, and field execution expertise with WLMG’s contracting capabilities and community network to deliver integrated access solutions that benefit all stakeholders. This is not a transactional relationship, it’s a commitment to sustained growth, Indigenous capacity building, and community prosperity.

Onyx believes in being accountable stewards in the regions we serve. Working alongside Willow Lake Métis Group reflects our core value of creating partnerships that extend beyond the project scope, partnerships built on shared accountability, environmental responsibility, and a “justice fighter” mentality that advocates for meaningful Indigenous participation on every project within WLMG territory.

Together, WLMG and Onyx are working to establish a future ownership structure where WLMG will hold 51% or more equity, formally creating a certified Indigenous-owned entity. This partnership positions WLMG as a leading Indigenous provider of access infrastructure services in the region, opening doors to workforce development, supplier engagement, and long-term community benefit that reflects true economic reconciliation.

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