West Australian Premier Roger Cook intends to seek answers from ABC management on why it had a film crew present at a climate protest outside Woodside Energy boss Meg O'Neill's family home in City Beach on Tuesday morning.

Mr Cook told media on Wednesday the protesters were "seeking to terrorise the CEO of Woodside and her family in their home" and questioned why the national broadcaster did not alert police at the time.

"These actions are just unacceptable and not on, and they must stop," he said of the activists.

"I think everyone respects peoples' right to protest, regardless of the issue, but the idea that you can go and terrorise someone in their home just because they're doing their job is absolutely unacceptable."

WA Police said security investigation group officers attended Ms O'Neill's home about 6.45am on Tuesday and arrested three people; a 19-year-old woman and climate activists Gerard Mazza and Jesse Noakes, from the Disrupt Burrup Hub group.

The trio and a fourth person, a 21-year-old man, were charged with conspiracy to commit an indictable offence.

Mr Cook said he wanted the ABC to explain how they had prior knowledge of the protest, which the broadcaster had yet to report on.

"They clearly had prior notice and understood that these people were going to the CEO's house - her personal home - to take this action, so I'll be seeking answers from the ABC today," the WA Premier said.

"I'll be contacting senior management to understand what it is that they knew and why they didn't take action to inform the police before this activity took place.

"I'm not a journalist, and I understand that all journalists are under pressure because they want to get to the bottom of the matter.

"But it is simply not good enough if what has taken place is there was a conspiracy to withhold details of this unlawful action from the police, given that they knew this action was going to involve going to someone's private home."

The ABC said in a statement the TV crew from its Four Corners program had received a tip to head to the City Beach address but did not collude with the activists in any way.

"A Four Corners team attended the protest action to gather material for a potential report later this year," the broadcaster said in a statement.

"They had no knowledge of what action was going to occur there. When they arrived the police were already in attendance, in numbers.

"The ABC team remained on public land observing what was happening and getting some vision, as journalists do. They at no time went on to private property or had any involvement in what was happening."

The WA premier's comments followed a social media post from WA Mines Minister Bill Johnston on Tuesday questioning how the ABC knew the activists would be at the residence.

Federal Resources Minister Madeleine King told ABC Perth on Wednesday the alleged behaviour was a 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 told ABC 720.

"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."

Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry CEO Andrew McKellar also condemned the incident on Wednesday, saying the alleged actions of the activists should not be tolerated.

"The privacy of individual employees, whether it be the CEO or anyone else, should be absolutely respected," he said.

Australian Petroleum Production and Exploration Association chief executive Samantha McCulloch said the industry respected peoples' right to protest legally in public places but private homes and families were off limits.

"This is a deplorable escalation of the intimidation and tactics used by activist groups to stifle informed public debate on the energy transition," she said on Wednesday.

The protest comes a day after a magistrate rejected a police application for an order to stop some of the group's members communicating while on bail for charges related to other protests that targeted Woodside.

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.