Premier of Canadian province takes on Big Oil

Danny Williams may be a multimillionaire and a member of the Conservative Party of Canada, but these days he is being compared to a self-proclaimed revolutionary, the Venezuelan president, Hugo Chavez.

Not that Williams, the premier of Newfoundland and Labrador, minds.

Since walking out on talks with a group led by Exxon Mobil and the Canadian subsidiary of Chevron over the development of the Hebron oil field this spring, Williams has never been more popular, at least at home. And he has since bolstered that gain by threatening a new law that would revoke the lease on the property that has been held by the oil consortium for more than two decades.
My West Texas