Media Advisory - Fording Canadian Coal Trust Annual and Special Meeting 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. DATASOURCE: Fording Canadian Coal Trust CONTACT: Susan J. Soprovich, Director, Investor Relations, (403) 260-9834; Catherine Hart, Coordinator, Investor Relations, (403) 260-9817, Email: , Website: http://www.fording.ca/

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