[2] As of 2020[update] it is the world's largest single emitter of greenhouse gas, at 56.5 million tonnes CO2 a year.
[3] However, if Afşin-Elbistan C power station in Turkey is built and operated at planned capacity it would emit over 60 million tonnes a year, though this project was stopped on the grounds of possible soil and air pollution.
Air Liquide acquired the 42,000 tons/day oxygen production in 2020, with plans for 900 MW power plants to reduce CO2 emissions.
As a major component of South Africa's economy, Secunda was in turn a major target of the African National Congress during the apartheid era[citation needed].
Two ANC attacks (and their aftermath) were dramatized in the 2006 film Catch a Fire.