"While the Commission actively pursues its purpose of stimulating commercial development, it also accepts as part of its mission the responsibility of acknowledging the environmental value of the setting in which Port Fourchon is located by working diligently to restore and protect the coastal landscaping and habitats that surround it."
-Ted Falgout, Port Executive Director 1978-2009

All port expansion and development projects hold the impact on the environment as a primary variable in the decision-making process. The Commission has been successful at significantly thwarting beach erosion by implementing a beach restoration project in 1986 and offshore segmented breakwaters in 1998.

The Commission also oversees an ongoing project which rebuilds the eroded banks of Bayou Lafourche, with plantings intended to stabilize the banks and provide habitat for the living marine resources which exist in the bayou.

The Northern Expansion project was both a benchmark development and an environmental mitigation project. As part of its permit application, the Port did the unthinkable; it offered an unsolicited mitigation plan that proposed to create an acre of new marsh for every acre of wetland impacted. This yielded a project that actually enhanced the marsh acreage surrounding the port while impacting mostly open water.

Considering environmental impact when planning for infrastructure growth enables the Port to create a win-win situation between the environment and economics.