Fording Provides Notice of Release of Financial Results and Conference Call CALGARY, April 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Fording Canadian Coal Trust (TSX: FDG.UN, NYSE: FDG) will release its 2004 first quarter results in the afternoon on Monday, April 26, 2004. Mr. Jim Popowich, President of Fording Canadian Coal Trust, will host a conference call with the investment community to discuss the results on Tuesday, April 27, 2004, at 8:00 a.m. Mountain time, 10:00 a.m. Eastern time. The media are invited to participate in a listen-only mode. To participate in the conference call, please dial 1-800-814-4857 or 416-640-4127 approximately 10 minutes prior to the call. An archived recording of the call will be available shortly after the completion of the call through Thursday, April 29, 2004 by dialling 1-877-289-8525 or 416-640-1917 and entering pass code 21044626 followed by the pound key. A live and archived audio webcast of the conference call will also be available on Fording's website at http://www.fording.ca/. 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 tounitholders. The Trust, through its wholly-owned subsidiary, Fording Inc., holds a 65% ownership of the Elk Valley Coal Corporation and is the world's largest producer of the industrial mineral wollastonite. The Elk Valley Coal Corporation, comprised of Canada's senior metallurgical coal mining properties, is the world's second largest exporter of metallurgical coal, capable of supplying approximately 25 million tonnes of high-quality coal products annually to the international steel industry. DATASOURCE: Fording Canadian Coal Trust CONTACT: Catherine Hart, Coordinator, Investor Relations, (403) 260-9817,

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