Western Canadian Coal Reports on Additional Coal Commitment and the Lifting of an Evacuation Notice in Tumbler Ridge.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia -- Western Canadian Coal Corp. (TSX: WTN)(TSX: WTN.DB) (AIM: WTN) (the "Company" or "WCCC") announces the following:

Additional Coal Sales Commitment

The Company is pleased to announce that it has been successful in a recent international tender, to supply 300,000 tonnes of Wolverine hard coking coal to Steel Authority of India Limited ("SAIL"). This quantity is in addition to the receipt of commitments for 880,000 tonnes of Wolverine hard coking coal, announced on June 27, 2006. The new sales commitment, scheduled to be shipped to SAIL by June 30, 2007, is subject to a successful trial shipment to be made in the third quarter of 2006. WCCC is expecting that the price settlements for Wolverine hard coking coal sales for the current coal year to average approximately US$100 per tonne.

This is the second successful bid for Wolverine hard coking coal that has been awarded by SAIL and the Company is close to fulfilling all of its projected sales target for the coal year ended March 31, 2007. Gary Livingstone, President and CEO of WCCC remarked that: "we are excited about the future for our coal deliveries into India which is a rapidly growing market and we continue to pursue smaller trial sales in a number of other markets in order to expand and diversify."

Evacuation of Tumbler Ridge Lifted

The Company is also pleased to report that the evacuation order that was put in effect earlier this week, for Tumbler Ridge, BC, has now been lifted. The evacuation order was implemented as a forest fire was drawing dangerously close to the community however recent events have seen the fire change direction and the threat to the community removed. Neither the Company's Wolverine or Dillon mines, nor personnel on the sites, were threatened by the Hourglass Fire; however, most of the people that work at the mines live in Tumbler Ridge and have been affected by the evacuation order.

No material impact on the Company's operations is anticipated as a result of these events and WCCC expects operations to continue as normal.

Gary Livingstone, President and CEO of WCCC said, "While we are sympathetic to our employees and other residents who had to be temporarily evacuated from their homes we are delighted that there was no loss or injury as a result of the fire."

Forward-Looking Information

This release may contain forward-looking statements that may involve risks and uncertainties. Such statements relate to the Company's expectations, intentions, plans and beliefs. As a result, actual future events or results could differ materially from those suggested by the forward-looking statements. Readers are referred to the documents filed by the Company on SEDAR. Such risk factors include, but are not limited to changes in commodity prices; strengths of various economies; the effects of competition and pricing pressures; the oversupply of, or lack of demand for, the Company's products; currency and interest rate fluctuations; various events which could disrupt the Company's construction schedule or operations; the Company's ability to obtain additional funding on favourable terms, if at all; and the Company's ability to anticipate and manage the foregoing factors and risks. Additionally, statements related to the quantity or magnitude of coal deposits are deemed to be forward-looking statements. The reliability of such information is affected by, among other things, uncertainties involving geology of coal deposits; uncertainties of estimates of their size or composition; uncertainties of projections related to costs of production; the possibilities in delays in mining activities; changes in plans with respect to exploration, development projects or capital expenditures; and various other risks including those related to health, safety and environmental matters.

WESTERN CANADIAN COAL CORP.
    "Gary K. Livingstone"
    President and Chief Executive Officer