The Federal Government announced last week it was closing the site as part of a cost-cutting measure.
Kenora M.P. Greg Rickford believes there still may be a future for the site with someone else taking the research site over.
A government spokesperson says they will try to transfer the Experimental Lakes over another group or provinces.
Meantime, the Manitoba government is worried about the pending closure of the Experimental Lakes.
Conservation Minister Gord Mackintosh says his staff are lobbying Ottawa to have the decision reversed.
MacKintosh says the research program being killed made important findings on hydro development, the banning of phosphorus in detergent, acid rain and mercury emissions from coal-fired power plants.
