UPDATES FOR UNION MEMBERS

RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY TRAIL CITY COUNCIL,

Sept 8, 2005

TRAIL OPERATIONS POWER SALES

The City of Trail and Local Area Municipal Councils have passed a resolution asking that the Provincial Government manage and administer water licenses issued to TeckCominco such that the power generated as part of its Trail Operations be utilized for its original intended purpose, sustaining employment at its operations.

We are actively working on getting this in front of the Union of British Columbia Municipalities (UBCM) on Sept 28/29 to be voted on. Similar resolutions have been sent to the BC Federation of Labour and the New Democrats to be voted on at their conventions at the end of November.

BARGAINING

The Union and Company Bargaining Committees will be meeting with Mediator Andy Simms from Sept 16-18 to resume collective bargaining. The bargaining committee will let you know the outcome as soon as possible.

RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY TRAIL CITY COUNCIL,

Sept 8, 2005

WHEREAS: Teck Cominco Metals Ltd. has been granted a water licence by the Province of BC to generate power in support of operating the smelter in Trail: and

WHEREAS: Teck Cominco Metals Ltd. sells power that is surplus to what it needs for local industrial and domestic consumption: and

WHEREAS: Teck Cominco Metals Ltd. may be able to sell additional power if production at its Trail Operations is curtailed or stopped, resulting in the sale of power which goes beyond what is normally sold on the open market and contrary to the intended purpose when the water licenses were originally granted:

NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED: that the Province of British Columbia be requested to manage and administer the water licenses issued to Teck Cominco Metals Ltd. such that power generated as part of its Trail Operations be utilized for its original intended purpose which would not limit the continuation of power sales in excess of normal and ongoing operating needs in support of sustaining Trail Operations;

AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED: that Council forward this resolution to the U.B.C.M. for consideration as an emergency resolution at their forthcoming Convention.