CALGARY, May 2 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - Fording Canadian Coal Trust (TSX:
FDG.UN/NYSE: FDG) will be holding its Annual and Special Meeting on Wednesday,
May 4, 2005. Details are as follows:
Date: Wednesday, May 4, 2005
Time: 11:00 a.m. MST
Where: The Fairmont Palliser Hotel
Alberta Room
133 - 9th Avenue S.W.
Calgary, Alberta
Michael Grandin, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, and Jim Popowich,
President, will be available to answer questions from the media directly
following the meeting in the Turner Valley Room.
About Fording
Fording Canadian Coal Trust is an open-ended mutual fund trust. Through
investments in metallurgical coal and industrial minerals mining and
processing operations, the Trust makes quarterly cash distributions to
unitholders. The Trust, through its wholly owned subsidiary, Fording Inc.,
holds a 60% interest in the Elk Valley Coal Partnership and is the world's
largest producer of the industrial mineral wollastonite. Elk Valley Coal
Partnership, comprised of Canada's senior metallurgical coal mining
properties, is the world's second largest exporter of metallurgical coal, and
expects to supply approximately 27 million tonnes of high-quality coal
products to the international steel industry in 2005. The Trust's shares are
traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol FDG.UN and on the
New York Stock Exchange under the symbol FDG.
SOURCE Fording Canadian Coal Trust
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CONTACT:
Susan J. Soprovich, Director, Investor
Relations, (403) 260-9834; Catherine Hart, Coordinator, Investor
Relations, (403) 260-9817, Email: investors@fording.ca, Website:
http://www.fording.ca
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