8 Quotes by Dan Egan

A normal lake is knowable. A Great Lake can hold all the mysteries of an ocean, and then some.

A single Seaway ship can hold up to six million gallons of vessel-steadying ballast water that gets discharged at a port in exchange for cargo. And that water, scientists would learn after it was too late, can be teeming with millions, if not billions, of living organisms.

Sandy beaches still rim the lakes, but if Lake Michigan, for example, were drained it would now be possible to walk almost the entire 100 miles between Wisconsin and Michigan on a bed of trillions upon trillions of filter-feeding quagga mussels.

I think he's letting the marketplace kind of dictate the pace.

Presumably, more choices are better than less choices.

I have polled our members a couple of times on this and have found very few in favor.

Generally speaking, 95 percent of all branch applications get approved. It's really not a controversial process.

Roughly 97 percent of the globe’s water is saltwater. Of the 3 percent or so that is freshwater, most is locked up in the polar ice caps or trapped so far underground it is inaccessible. And of the sliver left over that exists as surface freshwater readily available for human use, about 20 percent of that – one out of every five gallons available on the planet – can be found in the Great Lakes.