People living in the Scottish Highlands and Islands could “freeze or starve” to death as remote homes face the highest electricity bills, experts warned.
Citizens Advice Scotland said “people will die” if support is not urgently put in place amid the energy price cap crisis. Citizens Advice is a U.K. nonprofit that provides a national helpline and other services, such as legal referrals and information about political rights.
Householders in the Highlands and Islands and other rural places already pay the most for goods and services, and suffer the highest levels of fuel poverty in the United Kingdom. A Scottish government report estimates the minimum cost of living in remote rural Scotland is between 15 percent and 30 percent higher than in urban parts of the U.K.
