Ambassador Joseph Wilson (ret.) Gives Keynote Address at Africa's Indaba 2010 Power Conference

Urges Attendees To "Get On with the Job of Providing Power to the Vast Number of Africans Who Don't Have It"

CAPE TOWN, South Africa, February 24, 2010 - VIPs and delegates gathered in South Africa yesterday to hear retired US
Ambassador Joseph Wilson, a Director of Symbion Power, deliver the keynote
address at the opening of the Power Indaba 2010 conference in Durban, Symbion
Power announced today. Ambassador Wilson served for the United States
government at the US Embassy in Niger and he served as Ambassador to Gabon
and Sao Tome. He was President Bill Clinton's senior advisor on African
Affairs at the White House when Clinton made his historic visit to Africa in
1998.

Ambassador Wilson served as Chief of Mission at the US Embassy in
Baghdad, Iraq during the first Gulf War and after retiring from government
service he became a vocal opponent of the President's decision to invade Iraq
in 2003. After visiting Niger in the run up to the second Gulf War he
challenged the Bush administration's misuse of intelligence stating that Iraq
had attempted to purchase Uranium Yellow Cake from that African nation. His
six-year battle with the Bush administration began when the White House
exposed his wife's identity as a CIA covert officer. This has been chronicled
in his bestselling book, The Politics of Truth and in another bestseller,
Fair Game, written by his wife, former CIA Officer Valerie Plame. A movie
telling the story, directed by Doug Liman (The Bourne Identity), starring
Naomi Watts as Valerie and Sean Penn as The Ambassador will be released later
in 2010.

Following visits this January to Angola and Tanzania, Ambassador Wilson's
remarks to the 1500 Indaba attendees exhorted the participants to match 35
years of political maturity with the unfinished business of creating economic
growth. He said, "We have studied electrification to death. It is now time to
dispense with conferences and get on with the job of providing power to the
vast number of Africans who don't have it." Wilson underscored the importance
of building the electrical power facilities that are needed to convert raw
materials to finished products as well as emphasized the importance of
building the capacity of local people to do this work. Ambassador Wilson
remarked that Symbion Power's success working in difficult and hostile
environments is based upon its corporate philosophy of training local workers
and partnering with local firms.

Speaking by telephone, Symbion's Chief Executive Officer, Paul Hinks
said, "Joe Wilson loves Africa and Africa loves Joe. I just spent much of
January and February in Africa with him and I witnessed the love affair first
hand. The courage he displayed by defending the dignity of Africa, when it
was wrongly alleged that Saddam Hussein was buying uranium from Niger is
further testimony to a man who wants to see poverty alleviated on a continent
that is rich with an abundance of natural resources."

Hinks added, "Ambassador Wilson will be playing a greater, executive role
with Symbion in 2010 and going forward. We have four projects under
construction in Iraq and Kurdistan, we anticipate new work in Africa shortly
and we are in client discussions for projects in Yemen and Oman." "We have
unfinished business with regard to Afghanistan and we will be vigorous about
this and in the pursuit of new opportunities there later this year," said
Hinks.

The Ambassador concluded his remarks to the conference by urging the
participants to redouble their efforts to realize the dream of bringing
power, light and prosperity to the people of Africa.

About Symbion Power:

Symbion Power is an American company established in 2005 with offices in
the U.S., across the Middle East and in Africa that specializes in developing
complex turnkey electric power infrastructure systems, including transmission
lines, substations and switchyards and thermal power plants, in regions of
the world where conflict and instability are major impediments to progress.
Symbion's collaboration with Hart Security, the global agency that shares a
belief in the importance of working with local populations, has enabled
Symbion to develop a unique formula for success that combines security and
construction to deliver completed technical projects using a trained, local
workforce in locations where security is a risk factor.
www.symbion-power.com

Zelda Weitz of Symbion Power, +1-703-621-1202, +27-82-87-25-995, zelda.weitz at symbion-power.com