Wyoming has something Japan wants. That something is carbon-reduced natural gas, and lots of it.

Getting it there is another matter.

Wyoming has already hit what amounts to the Great Wall of China when it comes to taking fossil fuels to Asian markets.

The state of Washington, for example, refused to license a coal export terminal that would have carried Wyoming coal to Far East markets. Wyoming sued, citing barriers to interstate commerce, but couldn’t get past that barrier.

There may yet be another path for Wyoming’s natural gas. Steel is already being sunk into the ground for a new export terminal that lies 30 miles south of San Diego, just over the border in the Mexican state of Baja California.

Though it is in Mexico, the new terminal is being built by San Diego-based Sempra Infra

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