The ABC has denied knowledge protesters would allegedly trespass the family home of Woodside Energy boss Meg O'Neill as WA Police laid charges over the incident on Wednesday morning.
The public broadcaster said in a statement its TV crew was outside the Woodside CEO's home in City Beach on Tuesday morning to report on the activities of the Disrupt Burrup Hub activist group.
"They had no knowledge what behaviour would occur," an ABC spokesperson said.
"The ABC has nothing to do with the protest beyond the reporting it is doing."
Disrupt Burrup Hub activists Jesse Noakes and Gerard Mazza were charged by WA Police with conspiring to commit an indictable offence over the incident, which allegedly occurred at 6.45am.
Their lawyer Zarah Burgess said the pair had their bail refused overnight and would appear in Perth Magistrates Court on Wednesday.
Two others members of the group have also been charged but released on protective bail conditions and will appear in court later this month on the same charges.
Woodside has been targeted in recent times by the Disrupt Burrup Hub group and said in a statement on Tuesday the alleged actions of the activists were organised and designed to intimidate Ms O'Neill, her partner and daughter who were home at the time.
"This is an unacceptable escalation in activity designed to threaten and intimidate by an extremist group, which has no interest in engaging in respectful debate about Woodside's role in the transition towards a lower-carbon world," a company spokesperson said.
"Illegal activity like this only serves to distract from the real work being undertaken to achieve decarbonisation."
Ms O'Neill, who has been at the helm of the Perth-based oil and gas titan since August 2021, thanked the "swift response" of police to "ensure the safety" of her family.
"This was not a 'harmless protest'," she said in a statement on Tuesday.
"It was designed to threaten me, my partner and our daughter in our home.
The Burrup Hub is a group of gas developments on the Burrup Peninsula near Karratha in WA's Pilbara region that will use gas from offshore fields operated by Woodside.
The $72 billion company also plans to develop the CO2-rich Browse fields and pipe the gas 1000km to the peninsula, to be processed at its North West Shelf gas export plant that it wants to operate until 2070.
There have been recent protests from climate activists concerned at the industrial pollution from the developments and Woodside facilities themselves.
In June, the company threatened to sue two climate protesters from the Disrupt Burrup Hub group for financial loss after accusations one member released a stink bomb at the base of the company's 32-storey office in Perth, which forced the evacuation of 1500 workers.
Tuesday's incident comes after former WA premier Carmen Lawrence and Australian Conservation Foundation First Nations lead Josie Alec delivered an 8000-strong petition from footy fans and nature lovers to the Fremantle Dockers on Monday.
The club's lucrative $2 million sponsorship deal with Woodside ends on October 31 and it has come under increasing pressure not to renew it.
Federal Resources Minister Madeleine King condemned the alleged behaviour and told ABC Radio on Wednesday morning everybody had a right to protest but expressed concern for other people in public-facing roles.
"What it leads to is Australia potentially becoming the place where public figures need to surround themselves all the time," she said.
"I've had security details to go to a conference in Adelaide a number of times ... that's weird right, that's not on, that should not be the norm in this country.
"We could potentially find public figures become inaccessible to the public, and we hear less, and that's not good for democracy."
